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Dominique Sylvain, born in Thionville in 1957, is a French novelist specializing in crime fiction.

Biography
Dominique Sylvain has worked as an independent journalist for Le Journal du dimanche, then as a corporate journalist tasked with managing sponsorships in the steel industry at the Usinor group.

She has been awarded the Sang d'Encre prize in 2000 for Vox, the Michel Lebrun prize en 2001 for Strad, the Elle magazine Grand Prix des Lectrices in 2005 for Passage du Désir and the prize for the best French crime novel of 2011 as selected by the staff of LIRE magazine for "Guerre sale".

Her novels have all been published by Éditions Viviane Hamy, in the Chemins Nocturnes collection.

Sylvain began writing in 1993 during her first stay in Japan. The city of Tokyo has provided inspiration for her first novel Baka ! ("idiot" in Japanese).

Her early works include the private investigator Louise Morvan and, beginning with the second novel in the series, her partner, commissioner Serge Clémenti. Following this, Vox and Cobra introduce a trio of officers of the Brigade criminelle (French criminal investigators) lead by the commander Alexandre Bruce.

In 2004, she started the Ingrid et Lola series centering on the unofficial investigations of the American masseuse Ingrid Diesel and the retired commissioner Lola Jost. During this period, Sylvain shifted towards a mix of traditional crime fiction and humor. In 2007, the author performed a complete rewrite of her first book, Baka !, in the process reconnecting with her favorite character, Louise Morvan. The latter ends up playing a major role in La Nuit de Geronimo, a novel that switches back and forth between dark family secrets and unethical research in molecular biology and GMOs.

During her career, Sylvain has always been equally captivated by social problems and the twin worlds of art and science. Sœurs de Sang centers around « victim art », Strad touches on performers who use their body as a means of expression, while Vox (2000) features a serial killer who dreams of downloading his mind into a machine.

In the short story compilation Régals du Japon et d'ailleurs, Sylvain temporarily moved away from crime fiction in order to reminisce on the gastronomic experiences of her youth and her travels. Her novels have been translated in almost a dozen languages, including Russian and Japanese.

In 2011 the Contrebandiers firm published the collection Les Hommes en noir focusing on the world of football. As a contributor, Sylvain wrote a short story on the relatively recent passion of the Japanese for football. In 2012, the novel Le Roi Lézard, a comprehensive rewrite of Travestis (1998) which features Jim Morrison, the lead singer of The Doors was published. In October of 2013, Sylvain took part in the short story collection Femmes en colère along with Didier Daeninckx, Marc Villard and Marcus Malte.

In early 2013, the Éditions Viviane Hamy are to publish Ombres et soleil, a direct sequel of Guerre sale.